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Media: the middle things, in reference to the first and last things: or, The means, duties, ordinances, both secret, private and publike, for continuance and increase of a godly life, once begun, till we come to Heaven. Wherein are discovered many blessed medium's or duties, in their right method, manner and proceedings; that so a Christian (the spirit of Christ assisting) may walk on in the holy path, which leads from his new birth to everlasting life. / Drawn, for the most part, out of the most eminently pious, and learned writings of our native practical divines: with additionals of his own, by Isaac Ambrose, minister of the Gospel at Preston in Amoundernes.

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Media: the middle things, in reference to the first and last things: or, The means, duties, ordinances, both secret, private and publike, for continuance and increase of a godly life, once begun, till we come to Heaven. Wherein are discovered many blessed medium's or duties, in their right method, manner and proceedings; that so a Christian (the spirit of Christ assisting) may walk on in the holy path, which leads from his new birth to everlasting life. / Drawn, for the most part, out of the most eminently pious, and learned writings of our native practical divines: with additionals of his own, by Isaac Ambrose, minister of the Gospel at Preston in Amoundernes.
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Ambrose, Isaac, 1604-1664.
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London :: Printed by John Field for Nathanaell Webb and William Grantham, at the Greyhound in Pauls Church-yard,
1650. [i.e. 1649]
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Christian life -- Early works to 1800.
Devotional exercises -- Early works to 1800.
Asceticism -- Early works to 1800.
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"Media: the middle things, in reference to the first and last things: or, The means, duties, ordinances, both secret, private and publike, for continuance and increase of a godly life, once begun, till we come to Heaven. Wherein are discovered many blessed medium's or duties, in their right method, manner and proceedings; that so a Christian (the spirit of Christ assisting) may walk on in the holy path, which leads from his new birth to everlasting life. / Drawn, for the most part, out of the most eminently pious, and learned writings of our native practical divines: with additionals of his own, by Isaac Ambrose, minister of the Gospel at Preston in Amoundernes." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A75287.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 20, 2024.

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§. 5. How may we know whether we profit by afflictions?

VVE may know by these signs:

1. If by affliction we come to be sensible of Gods heavy displeasure, Deut. 31.17. Ruth 1.13. Mic. 6.9 1 Cor. 11.37.

2. If by affliction we are drawn to search our ways, 1 Kings 8.38. Ezra 9.14. Psa. 32.4, 5. Lam. 1.5.—3.39, 40.

3. If by afflictions we are soundly and sincerely humbled, 2 Kings 22.19, 20. Job 1.20. 1 Pet. 5.6.

4. If our afflictions work on us to make our peace with our God, Isa. 27.5. Hosea 5.15.

5. If by afflictions we be drawn to make and pay vows of better obedience, Psal. 66.13, 14.

6. If in our greatest afflictions we rest upon God, 2 Chro. 14.11. and wait on God, Psal. 37.7, 34. Micah 7.9.

7. If in our afflictions we minde the promises, and rowl our selves on them, 1 Sam. 30.6. Psal. 119.49, 50, 92.

8. If in our afflictions we clear God when he is judged, Psal. 119.75.

9. If for afflictions we bless God, and his afflicting hand, Job. 1.21.

10. If by afflictions our graces are stirred up and exercised, Job. 13.15. Psal. 42.5. Jer. 31.18. Rom. 5.3. 2 Cor. 1.10. Heb. 10.34. James 1.3.

11. If by our afflictions our prayers are more fervent, Neh. 1.3, 4. Psal. 77.2.—116.3.—142.4, 5.

12. If in our affliction we gather in some experiences of Gods love and help, Psal. 34.46.—66.16, 17.

13. If in our afflictions we submit willingly and chearfully to

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Gods good will and pleasure, Levit. 26.41. 1 Sam. 3.18.

14. If in afflictions we look more at the hand of God that strikes, then at the instrument, 1 Sam. 3.18. 2 Sam. 16.11.

15. If in affliction we reject all worldly sinful hopes, and un∣lawful means of deliverance, and rest onely on God, 1 Cor. 1.8, 9. Heb. 11.25, 26.

16. If in present afflictions we gather assurance of deliverance from former experiences, 1 Sam. 17.37. Psa. 77.9, 10, 11. 2 Tim. 3.11.

17. If by afflictions we finde corruptions to weaken, and to be mortified, Isa. 27.9.

18. If our afflictions beget assurance of our adoption, Heb. 12.8. sanctification, Heb. 12.6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. glorification, Mat. 5.12. 2 Cor. 4.17. 2 Pet. 2.8.

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